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other American combat unit, crossing the Danube River, liberating concentration camps and accepting the surrender of the German Army Group South one day before V-E Day.
Joseph F. Anzenberger Sr. of Delmont died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, at Ark... Read more

perspective.
Why is that?
It starts with the myth that the Wehrmacht was not morally corrupted, that it was a German army of professional soldiers who were not ideologically motivated and did not participate in massacres and genocides,... Read more

through a forty-kilometer-thick forest, and somehow join the retreating Russians who already fled from the approaching German Army. And even if they could survive the escape – what safety would primitive anti-Semitic Communist Russia offer... Read more

right.
For German writer Marcel Krueger, the statement is "a bit strange".
"I don't think anyone perceives anything the German army did then as positive," he says.
Many children of the post-war generation felt a strong sense of guilt over what... Read more

today.
Robert Schwentke's black-and-white drama The Captain centers on the astounding behavior of a deserter from the German army during the final two weeks of World War II in Europe and, in a deliberately exaggerated way, stresses how common... Read more

Miracle) -- a huge civilian flotilla crossing the English Channel in 1940 to rescue Allied troops trapped by the advancing German Army.
Kudos to each and every person involved in this ongoing effort. I do, however, take exception to this repeated... Read more

thriller “Dunkirk.”
The film opens as 400,000 Allied troops are trapped on the coast of Dunkirk, France, surrounded by the German army. Mostly young men, they had their whole lives ahead of them…but now their lives might only stretch as far as that... Read more

(Game of Thrones' Stephen Dillane) is just as passionately pleading for peace. Why risk total annihilation against the German army when Italy's willing to negotiate an accord between the two countries? Isn't it better for the people to give a... Read more

four western military districts in a “complex, multi-dimensional aggressive, anti-NATO exercise”.
NATO eFP battlegroup German army soldiers attend a sniper shooting competition in Rukla, Lithuania September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
“It... Read more

fully contradicts these official sources and was likely made in order to divert attention from internal problems in the German Army and switch it to external factors.
Is Germany itself really ready to cope with rapidly changing geopolitical... Read more

allies were well aware that Nazism had found deep and broad support not only among these stalwarts but also within the German army, which had fought to the bitter end. In the year following the war, the Western Allies arrested 100,000 former... Read more

emerged which shows him dressed as a Nazi.
The image, obtained by The Sun newspaper, shows the blue-eyed baker in German army uniform with a red and black swastika armband on his sleeve in a pub in Kent.
Another photograph from the same... Read more

of all kinds were sent from England to Dunkirk to evacuate Allied troops to large off-shore ships as they fled from the German army in 1940.
A similar call went out for boats to be brought to Houston, and people quickly responded. All kinds... Read more

through neutral Belgium. The Schlieffen Plan expected that France would be vanquished within six weeks, after which the German army would wheel about and crush Russia. Germany's invasion of neutral Belgium brought England into the war on the... Read more

H. has denied that he kept "anything like a death list."
There have been investigations into far-right extremism in the German army
Preparing for social collapse
The lawyer is a former member of the free-market, liberal Free Democratic Party... Read more

Cross whilst in command of a battle group near St Lambert-sur-Dive whilst trying to close the Falaise Gap where the German army was destroyed.
The incredible shots have been released in the book, The Normandy Battlefields Bocage and... Read more

de Broca and starring Alan Bates. The film is set in a small town in France near the end of World War I. As the Imperial German Army retreats they booby-trap the whole town to explode. The locals flee and, left to their own devices, a gaggle of... Read more

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DW

Anti-left 'kill list' kept by German lawyer and policeman |H. has denied that he kept "anything like a death list."
There have been inves

H. has denied that he kept "anything like a death list."
There have been investigations into far-right extremism in the German army
Preparing for social collapse
The lawyer is a former member of the free-market, liberal Free Democratic Party... Read more

and summer holidaymakers.
After seven years of closure for restoration and development, the museum, the place where German army field-marshal Erwin Rommel, the so-called “Desert Fox,” hid in the area’s cliffs and planned German military... Read more

Stuff that Huber “worked as a mountain guide in the alps before the World War II broke out and he volunteered to join the German army. He fought in Russia, France and Germany, earning Iron and Second Class crosses, and, after the war ended, was... Read more

how this unknown band of brothers dug into fox holes in the middle of the snowy Ardennes forest as they waited for the German army to advance, while others show troops stood over the bodies of their fallen comrades.
In another picture a... Read more

married Aug. 21, 1943, at the chapel at Fort Bragg, N.C.
He then went overseas and was involved in the invasion of the German Army at Cureton and St. Lo France. He was involved with General Pattons Third Army and speedy push through France and... Read more

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Salon.com

The devil’s pact: Putin, the alt-right, and the long shadow of historyof Eastern Europe? First, he received a distinctly friendly neutrality from his

of Eastern Europe? First, he received a distinctly friendly neutrality from his fellow dictator while he unleashed the German Army against the Western powers. Second, he received a cornucopia of raw materials from the USSR that helped nullify... Read more

was awarded the VC for leading a small battle group of Canadian tanks and infantry that blocked an encircled German army from escaping the Falaise Pocket in August 1944. His is one of only 12 VCs awarded to Canadians in Canadian units... Read more

Drexler referred to Jews as "the plastic demon of the fall of Mankind."
In September 1919, Hitler, a corporal in the German army, was assigned to spy on the GWP. If you've read Mein Kampf (and, life being brief, I'm not recommending you do)... Read more

they just forgot to cgi to normal size
Pretty sure that is a real butt wearing a fake tom cruise
In the film, Cruise plays German army colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, and in the image in question Tom is struggling following a wartime ex... Read more